Summer Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (SIMS) at Berkeley

美国加州大学伯克利分校（University of California at Berkeley）提议开发和运营数学科学暑期学院（Summer Institute for The Mathematical Sciences， SIMS），这是一个为期6周的项目，面向有数学天赋的本科女生。SIMS在全国范围内为24名女性提供密集的数学课程，旨在激励和准备她们进入并成功完成数学科学博士课程。SIMS旨在为参与者提供数学体验，让他们体验数学科学研究人员的感受，并旨在向学生传达女性可以而且应该从事数学研究的信息。该计划的核心是四个研讨会，分别是纯数学和应用数学。每个研讨会都由一名在全国范围内挑选的女性领导，她是一名活跃的研究数学家和一名有才华的教师。她的助手是一位数学研究生。学生们参加两个研讨会，一个是纯粹的，一个是应用的。作业的性质与典型的本科数学课程有很大的不同。学生们沉浸在研讨会材料中，在没有教科书的帮助下发现和证明结果，他们被赋予许多难题和项目，他们学习如何在对话和写作中获得和表达数学思想。除研讨会外，每周举行两次数学座谈会。在这些讲座中，著名数学家向学生们介绍了数学主题的广阔全景。还有小组讨论：申请研究生院和奖学金来源，数学科学研究生课程的多样性，数学的非学术性职业，以及女性作为研究生和数学科学专业人员所面临的挑战。

The Summer Institute for the Mathematical Sciences at Berkeley The University of California at Berkeley proposes to develop and operate the Summer Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (SIMS), a 6-week program for mathematically talented undergraduate women. SIMS provides 24 women, selected nationwide, with an intensive mathematics program that is designed to motivate and prepare them to enter and complete successfully a Ph.D. program in the mathematical sciences. SIMS aims to provide participants with a mathematical experience that will give them a taste of what it is to be a researcher in the mathematical sciences, and it aims to communicate to the students that women can and should be doing mathematics. At the heart of the program are four seminars, two each in pure and applied mathematics. Each seminar is led by a woman, selected nationwide, who is an active research mathematician and a talented teacher. She is aided by a teaching assistant who is a graduate student in mathematics. The students take two seminars, one pure and one applied. The character of the work is very different from that which is encountered in typical undergraduate mathematics courses. Students immerse themselves in the seminar material to discover and prove results without the aid of textbooks, they are given many hard problems and projects, and they learn how to obtain and express mathematical ideas in conversation and in writing. In addition to the seminars, mathematics colloquia are held twice weekly. In these talks, well-known mathematicians introduce the students to a vast panorama of mathematical topics. There are also panel discussions on: applying to graduate school and fellowship sources, the variety of graduate programs available in the mathematical sciences, non-academic careers in mathematics, and the challenges women face as graduate students and as professionals in the mathematical sciences.